Okay, I know it's a "dead world" *shuddering at the term*, but I'd like to see a few adventures that take place there. Isn't that where Lolth got her start?
Okay, I know it's a "dead world" *shuddering at the term*, but I'd like to see a few adventures that take place there. Isn't that where Lolth got her start?
As I recall Lolth gets her start in the Against/Descent/Spider Queen saga, which is nomially set in the Greyhawk setting. However the Isle of Dread got it's start there along with a lot of other cool things that have made it to 3.5.
On a side note I think I have 4 outstanding (both senses of the word) proposals set in the Known World that are just waiting for the next query meeting.
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If it's a dead world then it continues to exist as a sweetly inspiring dream because so much wonderful content is updated and cannabalized from Mystara that it still seems to have a distant pulse.
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Not entirely a dead world, just abandoned by the immortals who created it (TSR JOKE).
Terrible is the unexploited Oard who's technology allows their time and space traveling empire to be anywhere and when.
Forgotten are the Blacklore elves of the hollow world whose technology is a remnant of that World's Blackmoor Age.
Never quite accurate the rules governing Dominions who under value the Marilenev Estate by a hundred million gold pieces and the suspiciously generic setting novels rewritten for Karameikos which over valued the Penhaligon Estate (a toxic dump of sheep-hide tanning poisons).
It is not Dead, rather it is being plundered by WOTC in a Brutally corporate manner.
Not entirely a dead world, just abandoned by the immortals who created it (TSR JOKE).
Terrible is the unexploited Oard who's technology allows their time and space traveling empire to be anywhere and when.
Forgotten are the Blacklore elves of the hollow world whose technology is a remnant of that World's Blackmoor Age.
Never quite accurate the rules governing Dominions who under value the Marilenev Estate by a hundred million gold pieces and the suspiciously generic setting novels rewritten for Karameikos which over valued the Penhaligon Estate (a toxic dump of sheep-hide tanning poisons).
It is not Dead, rather it is being plundered by WOTC in a Brutally corporate manner.
Uh..I'm afraid you lost me.
First he lost you, then he jaundicedly ate your baby, then you took you in a brutally corporate manner.
Gentlemen, I think we've found Captain America's next replacement.
::Begins the slow clap::
You know, if you read what YD wrote as if it was woeful verse it reads quite smoothly. Just add an important narrator tone. Pretty neat actually.
Wow! This thread turned south really fast. :) The great thing about Mystara is that almost anything can be played there.
I'm currently running a Master of the Desert Nomads campaign where the Master invades Karameikos to overthrow the "doppelganger" Duke Stefan Karameikos (the Master believes that the Duke really is a doppelganger. He could be! Bozdogen is tricky like that.) The PCs have to decide if the Duke really is a doppelganger and what to do about it. The Master and his righthand man, Alrethus, have been very convincing. Role-playing rocks!
--Ray.
Okay, I know it's a "dead world" *shuddering at the term*...Then don't use it. It's a dead *publishing line*: its life as a world -- an imaginative construct -- doesn't depend on a stream of new products.
Quite right, just look at Doctor Who.
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What I am saying is that the Mystara Setting was mishandled at a critical arc in its development and the development of its developers. At its peak, TSR was overcommitting itself on other projects that didnt have the right growth to validate the investment in their development, and then they abandoned the one thing that would have given the setting in their jump to WOTC.
They abandoned the Small Wizards Almanac.
Now if Paizo were to do an equivelent Small wizards almanac-a Dungeon Magazine Special issue devoted to Mystara and something relevent to the Campaign year of every Setting, it would access the Core Gamers who are being left behind.
Sure do Dungeon, but DO Dungeon Campaign Updates (bringing Dungeon up to twelve issues per year like Dragon)...
The Game Needs 6 issues of Generic D&D and a full issue devoted to each setting.
Curse you GYGAX you made the game fun. You made the Game Fuuunnn!
First he lost you, then he jaundicedly ate your baby, then you took you in a brutally corporate manner.Gentlemen, I think we've found Captain America's next replacement.
::Begins the slow clap::
No! Don't eat the jaundiced baby! He's got jaundice! Pick out one of the fresher babies, the ones who aren't yellow under the nails and move around a lot- that's how you know they're good to eat!
The Game Needs 6 issues of Generic D&D and a full issue devoted to each setting.
Curse you GYGAX you made the game fun. You made the Game Fuuunnn!
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Now that's an idea I can get behind! They already did it (sorta kinda) with Dark Sun(although that whole thing started a fight amongst my gaming buddies that has yet to cool off, what with paladins in the setting and all. A good attempt to make Dark Sun more 3.5 friendly, but they should have had an entire page explaining where paladins came from and why!), so I want to see it with Planescape(which has had a few scattered articles, all of which were quite good), Spelljammer(bring back PYRESPACE! It's where I'm holding the Savage Tide), and Mystara!
I grew up on Mystara. More accurately, I didn't know what any other "campaign setting" was. The D&D Rules Cyclopedia addressed Mystara--the Known World, and that weird Hollow World. So, many old faces are coming around again.
I can't tell you the look of joy I had when I saw "Bargle the Infamous" in one of Dungeon's more recent Critical Threats. (He was a major villian in one of my campaigns back then.) Other names I'm seeing come up include Zanzer Tem, and his dungeon with Axel, and others. The Isle of Dread is no exception, making running STAP all that much juicier.
I've reintroduced many names and faces from those halcyon D&D days of yore in my current campaigns, and if we see more "Mystara" material--and I admit, it's getting recognition--its sure to motivate me to at least do a one-shot with it.
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The posters of seven years ago thank you, Scrapper. I am sure it's been nagging at them ever since. :-)